Google, Bing & Yahoo Bribe Users With Free WiFi
Nov 10, 2009 at 9:58am ET by Greg Sterling
Who expected the search wars to open a new front involving WiFi? Google, Bing & Yahoo have each just announced free WiFi promotions of various sorts.
Google, which previously said it would provide free WiFi on all Virgin America flights through early next year, is now going to provide it at 47 US airports through the end of the year. A partial list includes "Las Vegas, San Jose, Boston, Baltimore, Burbank, Houston, Indianapolis, Seattle, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando, St. Louis and Charlotte. Additionally, as a result of this project, Burbank and Seattle airports will begin offering ai [...]
Filed in: Google: Mobile, Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Bing Mobile, Yahoo: Mobile & Go
Bing Adds NFL, Flight Information To Mobile Browser
Oct 30, 2009 at 3:03pm ET by Matt McGee
Bing has announced a couple additions to its mobile browser today: expanded NFL information and airline flight status reports.
The NFL feature works by typing in a team or player's name, and provides stats, scores, and schedule details. Bing also says you'll get "eal-time updates on the plays" while a game is being played.
The flight status feature shows departure and landing times when you type in an airline and flight number.
Bing also says it has improved its mobile browser for touch-based devices, and added a new Movies feature with local showtimes and trailers.
Bing's mobi [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing Mobile
Bing’s New Mobile Voice Search Available On New Samsung Phone
Oct 7, 2009 at 1:09pm ET by Matt McGee
The Bing Search Blog has announced a new mobile voice search capability that competes with, and even one-ups the more well known mobile voice search tools from Google.
The Bing voice search tool has three capabilities:
search Bing by speaking a query
dial a contact's phone by speaking the number
compose a text message by speaking it
As eWeek's Google Watch points out, that last feature -- the ability to speak a text message -- is something that Google voice search doesn't offer natively. (There are some Android apps that make it possible, however.)
These three features were a [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing Mobile
‘Augmented Reality’ Is Also A Form Of Search
Aug 12, 2009 at 9:22am ET by Greg Sterling
We're really just at the beginning of the era of "mobile search." Even what we think of as "search" will be dramatically altered by innovations in mobile. In this first phase the transfer of what might be called the "query box" (and related links) into mobile is complete. In time, however, we many even come to see that image -- the white box with the search button to the right -- as a kind of metaphor for something more intangible (i.e., directed intent) that can be fulfilled in a variety of ways.
Google is already the dominant player in search on mobile devices and certainly on smartphon [...]
Filed in: Features: Analysis, Google: Mobile, Microsoft: Bing Maps & Local, Microsoft: Bing Mobile, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines
Live Search Mobile Adds Videos & Baseball Scores
May 8, 2009 at 9:18am ET by Barry Schwartz
The Live Search Blog announced they have added video search results and baseball scores to Live Search Mobile. I decided to take a few screen shots of live.com on my iPhone:
Live Search Mobile Video Results:
Live Search Mobile Baseball Info:
Why the Mets? Well, I am a Met fan, or at least, I try to be. [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing Mobile, Top News
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